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The Sponge Microbiome Project
Marine sponges (phylum Porifera) are a diverse, phylogenetically deep-branching clade known for forming intimate partnerships with complex communities of microorganisms. To... -
Holistic understanding of the response of grapevines to seaweed extracts foli...
SEAWINES project proposes an interdisciplinary approach for evaluating the use of seaweed extracts in the vineyard as an alternative and environmentally friendly sustainable... -
Pseudoalteromonas issachenkonii strain:KCTC 12958 Genome sequencing and assembly
Genome sequencing of Pseudoalteromonas issachenkonii KCTC 12958 using Pacbio sequencing platform -
Halophilic Communities as a Source for Novel Lignocellulolytic Enzymes
The goal of my project has been to identify microbes and enzymes tolerant of varying levels of salinity. The driving hypothesis for this work is that salt tolerance correlates... -
DNA extraction comparison testing 2019-2020
Our DNA extraction protocol is years old, and we want to compare new extraction methods to address outstanding issues. For more details, check out the motivation and... -
Triplicate PCR reactions for 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing are unnecessary
Conventional wisdom holds that PCR amplification for sequencing should employ pooled replicate reactions to reduce bias due to jackpot effects and chimera formation. However,... -
A whole-watershed microbiome reveals a cross-biome role in symbiont sources a...
In this study we map microbial distributions within a small, natural watershed in order to examine source-sink dynamics of symbiotic microbes at the landscape scale, among... -
Habitat conditions reflect compositional differences in microbiome among Cari...
Sea urchins are considered one of the most common benthic grazers in tropical marine ecosystems and can exert a strong in??uence in the community structure. The sea urchins... -
Ectocarpus dis mutant resequencing
Ectocarpus dis mutant resequencing